Journalist Amet Suleymanov, sentenced to 12 years and serving time in prison No. 2 in the Vladimir region, did not receive the necessary medications for heart failure. He has been living without them for three months now. The prisoner's family prepared and sent him a package with drugs, but it was not accepted.

The Malgobek City Court of Ingushetia extended the arrest of Leila Gatagazheva until the end of the year. This was reported by the Memorial Human Rights Protection Center.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) issued a decision in the case of obstacles to the work of a Muslim school in Georgian in the city of Kobuleti (Adjara). One of the eight applicants was awarded compensation for moral damage in the amount of 1,000 euros, and another seven – 1,600 euros each.

The military appeal court upheld the 11-year sentence against Crimean Tatar journalist Ernes Ametov. Project “Support for political prisoners. Memorial recognized him as a political prisoner.

In 2017, security forces broke into the house of a builder and Nalchik resident Rustam Kuchmenov. He was taken to the police department, where they tried to force him to confess to the theft. There, as Rustam recalls, he was brutally tortured, reports the Team Against Torture.

The editor of the Tatar-Bashkir service of Radio Liberty (Idel.Realii) Alsu Kurmasheva was recognized as a political prisoner. Previously, she was arrested and charged with failure to report herself as a “foreign agent,” the Human Rights Project “Support for Political Prisoners” reported. Memorial".

The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation upheld the sentence of three Crimean Tatar political prisoners - Enver and Riza Omerov and Aider Dzhapparov. They will spend 18, 13 and 17 years in prison respectively.

The New York Committee to Protect Journalists called on the Azerbaijani authorities to release the director of Internet television Channel 13, Aziz Orujov. The applicants also demanded that repressions against independent media be cancelled.

The US has expressed concern over the arrest of four journalists and activists in Azerbaijan within a week.

Crimean Tatar philologist and journalist Seyran Saliev, sentenced to 16 years in prison, has been under preventive registration in a colony in the Tula region for six years. However, he did not commit any violations.